At least four people were killed on Thursday as a suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah.

At least four people were killed on Thursday as a suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah.

"A suicide attacker detonated his Toyota sedan vehicle loaded with explosives on an armoured vehicle," Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the Helmand governor, told Agence France Press.
"As a result, four people are killed and 34 others wounded."

The bomber hit a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) convoy near the education department in what is the provincial capital of Helmand.

A child was among the dead and the wounded included several women and children, he said, while 17 private vehicles were destroyed by the force of the blast.

Three Westerners, two men and a woman who were inside an armored vehicle with the PRT, were lightly wounded, he said. Their nationality has not been announced.